Database Report

Temperate Forests of European Russia -- Module of the FORUS database

Larisa Khanina & Maxim Bobrovsky

GIVD Database ID: EU-RU-014	Last update: 2020-11-09
Temperate Forests of European Russia	Web address:
Database manager(s): Larisa Khanina (khanina.larisa@gmail.com); Maxim Bobrovsky (maxim.bobrovsky@gmail.com)
Owner: IMPB RAS (Branch of the M.V. Keldysh IAM of RAS) & IPCBPSS RAS, Pushchino
Scope: Database includes about 5000 vegetation relevés sampled mostly in State nature reserves and National parks of European Russia (mainly Moscow, Kaluga, Voronezh regions; the Chuvash and Mari El republics). Vascular floristic plots with cover abundance recording in forest and meadow communities are entered including plots on abandoned agricultural lands.
Abstract: The database contains records from vegetation plots located in forest communities and, to a lesser extent, meadow communities; about 10% of the relevés was sampled on former agricultural fields which were abandoned from 1 to 25 years before the sampling. Mature and old-growth broad-leaved forests as well as mixed coniferous-broad-leaved forests are described from the State Nature Reserves Kaluzhskie zaseki, Voronezhskiy, Prioksko-Terrasnyi, Prisurskiy, Bolshaya Kokshaga and from the Ugra and Mariy-Chodra National Parks.
Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): MS Access, Excel	Export format(s): Excel, CSV file
Plot type(s): normal plots, time series	Plot-size range (m²): 1 to 10000
Non-overlapping plots: 5073	Estimate of existing plots: 5073	Completeness: 100%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 5563	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 1	Valid taxa: 0
Countries (%): RU: 100
Formations: Forest: 81% // Non Forest: 19%
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: 11.5%; 10-100 m2: 3.4%; 100-1000 m2: 77.9%; 1000-10000 m2: 0.6%; >= 10000 m2: 0%; unknowmn: 6.6%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 0; soil pH: 0; soil depth: 0
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%; number of individuals: 0%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 0%; biomass: 0%; other: 0%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 32%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 61%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 7%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 0%
Sampling periods: before 1920: 0%; 1920-1929: 0.05%; 1930-1939: 2.2%; 1940-1949: 0.05%; 1950-1959: 0.3%; 1960-1969: 5.9%; 1970-1979: 0%; 1980-1989: 4.2%; 1990-1999: 38.5%; 2000-2009: 25.6%; 2010-2019: 23.2%
Information as of 2026-04-29; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-RU-014

Larisa Khanina* (khanina.larisa@gmail.com)
Laboratory of Computational Ecology, IMPB RAS - Branch of the M.V. Keldysh IAM RAS, Vitkevicha 1, 142290 Pushchino, RUSSIA
Maxim Bobrovsky (maxim.bobrovsky@gmail.com)
Laboratory of Ecosystem Modelling, IPCBPSS RAS, Institutskaya 2, 142290 Pushchino, RUSSIA
* corresponding author